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Hi there, I'm a twenty-something event manager from Brisbane. This is my posting space for stuff I find aesthetically pleasing or mentally stimulating. I share too much on Facebook and Digg as it is, so they can all come here now. You can find me elsewhere on Twitter, on Facebook or at my website. |
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When Shit Becomes Too Much of a Scene
Jane: So how do you like living in Greenpoint?
Toby: I dunno, I used to like it, but now it’s just too much of a scene.
Jane: Oh, I get that. I just moved here and I can already totally appreciate that. I’m thinking of getting a bike soon. Seems like a good thing to have around here.
Toby: Oh, I was thinking of getting a bike, too. But then there’s all those bike kids around all the time, like, talking about vintage frames and shit. It’s just become too much of a scene.
Jane: Oh, well. I just thought it would be easier than taking the bus, but I can see what you mean. Do you go to a lot of shows around here? Where’s good to go?
Toby: I used to go to shows more, but then it started to seem like people were going to concerts to be cool, not because they actually like the band. It’s too much of a fucking scene.
Jane: Oh, OK. I get that. I feel like that at shows sometimes. But, you know, I like seeing bands live sometimes… So what do you do for fun?
Toby: I mostly just spend a lot of time by myself…
Jane: Ah.
Toby: But that whole loner thing is starting to become too much a scene.
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Submitted by iareangeline
reminded me of us
I’m trying. But isn’t there a time when you just have to cut your losses and give up? I suppose you look at that reason and figure out if it’s still there at all.
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Safety First
Nett Administrator
13 October 2009How much do you trust the people in your social networks - those you know and those you don’t? And how much should you give away about yourself?
A few years ago, a mutual friend introduced me to a very bright software developer. Over the last few years I’ve been happy to give advice to this developer - advice he has used to create a brilliant product.
Only after I started extolling the virtues of his product throughout my networks did I learn that this person had a long and chequered history.
He had such a toxic back-story, most Australians wouldn’t consider doing business with him, no matter how brilliant his innovation.
When I reported my surprise and displeasure to the friend who had introduced us, she tossed it off with a, “You know, there’s this thing called Google …” And it’s true, I could have done a background check - instead, I relied on the strength of the personal recommendation. My mistake.
For just this reason, the Japanese are reluctant to make personal introductions.
In Japanese culture, the person making the introduction is responsible when that relationship goes awry.
This happens more often than we care to admit. Last year, a friend in California - a very prominent technology entrepreneur - found himself forced to apologise to all of his business associates because he’d hired a notorious computer hacker, who was awaiting trial for hacking, into his firm. Although the hacker had done nothing wrong during the time my friend employed him, a simple Google search at the beginning of the interview process would have saved my friend a very painful and public embarrassment.
Live and learn. Today we have fantastic tools to uncover hidden facts, but we also have incredible capabilities to establish and strengthen connections between individuals. So we find ourselves in a dilemma: do we trust our social networks, or do we check every recommendation ruthlessly? (Is there enough time in the day for all that fact checking?)
In other words, can we really trust our social networks?
A recent study showed that people were very willing to let people they didn’t know follow them on Twitter. (I must admit I’m guilty of this sin.) Yet, once someone follows you, they have access to all sorts of information that could be used against you. Criminals could keep track of your comings and goings to target your home. Excited tweets about your latest passion (human or otherwise) could be used to profile you for a scam. Someone with malevolent intent could take all of this information we’re freely sharing and turn it against us.
“Someone with malevolent intent could take all of this information we’re freely sharing [through social networks] and turn it against us”
In the UK, insurance firms are looking into the implications of all of this. Should people who innocently reveal potentially dangerous information pay higher premiums for their openness? We know that social networks have an opportunity cost - you must be present and active within them to benefit from them - but we never realised they might exact a financial cost, or a security cost.
Because of the value revealed within our social networks, we need to review them periodically, and weed out the bad, the dangerous and the useless. Connections are great, but not every connection is good. #
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